Contents
Introduction
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
1 Migration, and migratory myths
World migration
Postwar migration to industrialised countries
Migration to Britain
2 Border controls
Racism
Early history of British immigration controls
Controls on Commonwealth immigration
Fortress Europe
3 Refugees: Tightening the screw
The debasing of refugee rights
Legislation and legal processes in Britain
The criminalisation of refugees
Destitution
Detention
Campsfield immigration detention centre
4 Resistance
Resistance in Britain
The sans- papiers movement
5 Re- open the borders
Immigration controls and human rights
Immigration controls do not work
Immigration and jobs, wages and conditions
Immigration and public expenditure
Immigration controls and racism
Migration and the Third World
Free Movement
Appendix
Bibliography
List of organisations and campaigns
Index
Tables
1.1 Foreign population as a percentage of total resident population in European countries, 1997
1.2 Estimated net immigration from the new Commonwealth from 1953 to the introduction of controls in mid- 1962
1.3 Net migration to/ from Britain, 1871-1991
3.1 Asylum applications in Britain in the 1990s
